The research within the Antenna and
Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory focuses on antennas and radiowave
propagation for application into personal mobile communications, vehicles and
sensors.

Furthermore, research
activities also include applied research in classical electrodynamics (e.g.
scattering and diffraction theory) and its application to the study and
modelling of radiowave propagation in the VHF, UHF and SHF bands in terrestrial
environments (e.g. mobile radio microcells, body area communications).

Electronics Letters has an 'In brief' section at the front
which highlights some of the work within the issue. We are pleased to have been
included in the 'In brief' section of the Electronics Letters volume 46, issue
7 which points out the advances made in our paper 'Switchable Filtering in
Vivaldi Antenna' More information on the highlighted work called VIVALDI'S 7TH
can be found at:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5442092

November 2009 : Prof Peter Hall won the James
Roderick James Lifetime Achievement Arward in LAPC2009

In recognition of his outstanding contribution over a
significant period of time in the fields of Antennas and Propagation. Professor
Peter Hall has made outstanding technical achievements and contributed
significantly to our knowledge and understanding of microstrip antennas and
arrays, active antennas, MIMO and body-worn communication systems.

The CST University Publication Award is an annual grant to university
institutes and researchers for work in the application of 3D EM field
simulation. For the first time in 2008, an additional special award for short
papers was introduced. We are pleased to have been presented with
the short paper award 2008 for the paper "Omnidirectional
loop antenna with left handed loading".

More information on the CST award, and direct link to paper can
be found at:

SLIMSENS (Short and Long Range Integrated Multifunction Radar
and Communications Sensors) is a joint industry, academic and UK Government
research project which was initiated after EU legislation was passed which
paves the way towards every new vehicle having a pedestrian safe device by
2008/10.

The aim of SLIMSENS is to create an integrated sensor that can
provide both pedestrian safe technology and adaptive cruise control

Research at EECE in cognitive radio to speed up two-way radio communications

In an effort to improve the speed and quality of two-way radio
communication, researchers within the Devices and Systems research centre are
developing selfadapting antenna for cognitive radio. These radios detect those
channels that are in use and those that are not. Rather than traditionally
modifying the signal processing methods of congnitive radio, changes will be
made to the antenna itself.

"The skills acquired, first as a PhD
student in the Communications Engineering Research Group and then as a Research
Associate, had a major positive impact in my career. Peter Hall's guidance and
leadership by example made possible to transform a group of people into a
strong research team"